The police affidavit supporting the arrest names the victim as Lynette Walton, with whom Gwynn has a teenage daughter.

Walton told police that Gwynn is ``obsessed'' with her but that she nonetheless agreed to meet with him at a bar in East Hartford on Nov. 29.

They quarreled when she refused to tell him she loved him, Walton told police, and soon moved outside. She told police she got into his car voluntarily. When he turned on the ignition, she believed he was doing so to fend off the cold, she said.

But he soon began driving, she said, and he refused to let her out. For 20 minutes, she told police, he punched her in the face and in the ribs as they drove along either I-84 or I-384 -- she could not say which.

At one point, she said, he took his shirt off to staunch the blood from her lip. He agreed to take her to a hospital, and asked her to say only that an ex-boyfriend had assaulted her.

When he stopped to get a fresh shirt from the trunk, she bolted from the car.

Police say Walton's bottom lip was swollen and bleeding when she was interviewed in Manchester Memorial Hospital.